A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of John Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21 yeares

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That the y.of d this 1^37

an Smbrion of this forme and
dimentions, as is here deicribed
was found in the left Ventricle
of the heart of uhn Ptnnant
Gentleman, of the age of 21.
ycares, or thereabouts. Wee
who faW it teflific under out
hands :

edw4td May Doftor of Phyfick,
Jacob Hejdoft Surgeon.

SU^betn Herrin Aunt unto the
faid John Pennant.

^orathy pennant Mother to the
faid John Pennant*

Rfcard Berry.

M". Gentlemans markc.
This is my wives marke I teftify.
Geer^ Gent I tutan.

MOST CERTAINE

AND TRVE

RELATION

OF A STRANGE MON^
SrE% 0%SE%EE:h(T

Found in the left Ventricle of

the heart of loHN Pennant, Gentle-

man, of the age of zi.yeares.

By Edward May Dodor of Philofophy
and Phyfick^ and profejfor Eleftofthm^
in the CoIIedge of the Academy of
Nohle~men,caUed the Mufxum Minervxi
Phyfitian alfo extraordinary unto her
moft Sacred Ma/efty,,^tff»? of
greM ’Britt Any

LO'^BON, .

Printed by george Mifier, MDCXXXIX.

TO THE

right HONOV-
rable lord and

ihi^hlv renowQC^i P cere of this

FJngdome , E T> IV

f arleof Dotfet,i5’c. Knight ofthe moft
^oble order of the garur » Lord

. ■ High Chambetklne unto her moft
Soveraigne M3jefty,QVEENE of
^reat Brittaue.dcc. And one

* ofthe Lords of his Msjelties
moft honourable pvwy
Councell.

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Bdxvard wifbeth all health and glory.

L 0 B D) ^ -r r 1

- OR this Treatije IfeeU

no patronage^ for if the
Relation and the Author
cannot defend then/s*
[el^es-, let them both
fuffer. A flies

bitter then aS^me, though his toinghe

me npiitic ucdicatory,

phoje ?a &PauI^

Qhurch of ly}

Dffcription of mine begood^ or great ^ ft or thy
or otheryo/fe^ it is not dedicated to your Uo^
nour as a matter prefuming toyoards your
worth, or prefence y but as a puhliKe obliga^
tion in the face of the worlds of my fume and
more [olid gratitude : Touharve honour edme
before the Noble Peeres, andhighefl Coun--
ceUors of the Kingdoms ; TouhayeotherwJfe
done me reaQ favours ^ yphat am J^or what is
in me that you hanoe not conquered! and not
by tbefe benefits to me only^ but thefemany
yeares myobfer<vatms ofyourmoft Noble
nature, your more then humane partesy your
yaft and incredible comprehenfon of aU
thingsy both efentiall and accidental to your
place and dignity • Tour innumerable merits
and that uniioerjall acclamation -of all men
whatfoeyeryhayemade me y more your hm-
ble ferrvm then you knoyty andyohen after a
(bott fpace Godfballgiue me to ft a little quU
et, tending mine ownaffaireSy your Lordjhip
Jball f ^e, not by m} ytritings but by my doings y
that I am more your Lord/hips then any
French or thrice deyoted feryant, A «

A Preface to the Reader .

Cmfervation of the workcs- of

Hat my dcfignes arc in the^«l-
Itjhing of this the

Reader may finde (iye«y:W?iere
in it, to be no other theri the

God, and nature, and frefervatim oi mcn i
but for the Printing of it in Englifh, have
neither end nor intent For thefe two. y cares
it hath beene negledled by me, and perufed
up and downein the hands of the beft, and
beft learned, who-have defired fatisfadiom
touching fo rare an oftent : for the young
Gentleman in whom it was found, deceafed
thc*6‘. of October, in the yearcof our Lord,
1537. My intention in this Delcription was
for the Continent^dnot for our Hands only,
wherefore J flayed my hand till fome oppor¬
tunity to publiih fome other Lattine Treatifes
of mine ownc with it*, which many ycares
have beene defired ; But now this being ftill
out of my hands, and licenfed for the prefTc
before any notice given me^for the faf isfadion
of our own nation, and for the benefit of them
who defired the printing of it, I have freely
given way topleafiireany who fhall defirero
read it; wherefore if Platonic Jl and fpeci-
ficall Ideas doe correfpond : and the readers
honeft mindanfwcr my fincerc truth and good

wi fhes j 1 have my end * A 3

. » vj 4 J J v*. N

1 he. Contents.

Ht Prefacff,

Blflory itfeife,

' ^.^•The Occajian” ef this defiriptian}

and ifvho were prefent.

derjipody who /aid that the heart was not fnhjeB to any
’di^ekfe > as alfo an enmherationdfdifeafes of the heart.

4,5 . Hoid fuch Monjiers are begotten or bred in the

heart. '

That thefe flrange generations are caufedbj
thf TemperamtHt individuall.
r>r4»7< light and helpe men may have by fuct)
Htations^'and fuch refolution of this dificnlty as in the
former Paragraph is fet downs: and how that in latent
cemfesfome exterionr (Ignatnre^ or beames difc over the
dyeafe, ; ,

8. That all creatures, things iU the world, and «//-
[safes have their T&dijy asweU as the Starres of Hea^
even: praovedbj Frier Bacon, andthat mo fl learned
Philofopher Ki^mdus, arid by reafens and experience,
and that there is ^o^aBion bfit per rndipSj«i»^j that there
is no aBion immediatione fuppofiti, bsn onely imme*
diatiohevirrntis.

§.p. How fonts Phiftians have preferibed againfi
Qtch difeafes .

5,10. Onereafon why thefe of cult maladies are [9
feldeme found, and never curedithe many benefits of fire-

i^uent dijfeBionSi

EffMtd.

Pas;i».lin. i2,pHtinto. p.4. Ijy readcCaprizant.l.jS.opcn. p
hontjp.t 4.1.i<5.yct.p. 1 9 1.3 .convtmu eevd^iata.p iy,liS l{/rii)imSehp,2 8.1 7,
iifeowred-j 2.1,14 fi0SaiMl»j.tftvriat«r.

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TO THE RIGHT
WORSHIPFVLLSia.
THSOTiO^g MAIHS'R^S

knight, CHIEFE PHY-

SIT I AN UNTO HIS MOST
Soveraignc Majvfty>KlNG
cf griat Brittany i &c.

EdvPArd CA'la), jvifliethall health.

§. I.

si%

~ ''ongthofemany favours
ou have afforded me,
ourDrivate,fweet^ moft

familiar and long Collo-
quies with me have been
lingular :Whileyou lay-

i ing afide important af¬
faires, out of an admirable candour and love
to Learning, (in which few excel! you;
vouchlafe {omctimcs to trcatc with me

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concerning occult and moft facred

medicines : In one of which meetings, ns
I had laid open what I had found in the Sini^
j?^yr^r/V/eofthe heart of a young Gentle¬
man, which you defired me to deferibe while
the Species were yet freih in my memory, as
others many both Phyfitians and Friends
have done alfo : So here I have done it : And
do firft communicate it unto your fcife, as a
fmal of my certainelsnowledgeof your

great; and admirable pcrfe<5tions in many,
Sciences, nececelTary him who is Phyiitian to
Princes ; and of my lingular eftimation of
them ; As alfo to fow fome feeds of future
Difeourfes, both new and worthy of that fa-
ving and divine Magick which we both pro-
feflc: Well knowing that good ufe. may bee
made of this Hiftory by all Phyfitians, and
profit unto many, as I have partly declared in
the Subfequents.

It is an oftent and prodigy, ftrangc and
incredible which] am to paint: And if in
many Phyfitians of beft efteeme, and fince-
rity I had not found Relations very like it,
mineowne heart would not have given credit
to mine owne eyes and hands when firft I
found 'it : But you have found one like it
inthe heart of a Noble Lord; but when you
have feen this, I Ihallknow whether fo grown,
or of this forme,or otherwife: Let the V ulgar
and Ignorant, belceve if, or not believe it ,
Phyfitians and knowing meir (asyou^do) will

receive

receive k:'. And therefore briedy the certain^e
Hiftoryaod trHe Relation is this. ; . .r

6. 2.

He feventli of 0^/ohr this yearc cur^
rent, 1 537. the Lady Herr /if wife un-

_ _ ^ toSi^ Francis Herr is Knight, came

unco me and defired that I would bring a-S'/zr-
geon wich me, to diiTcdl the body of her Ne¬
phew John Ftnnant^ the night before decea-
fed, to fatisfie his friends concerning the cau-
fes of his long ficknelTe and of his death :
Andthat his mother, to whom my fdfe had
once or twice given hdpe fome yeares before
concerning the Stone, might be afeertained
whether her Sonne died of the Stone or no <
Upon which intreaty 1 fent for Mate
Heydon Surgeon^ dwelling againft the Cafile
Taverne behind S^. Clements Church in the
Strand, who with his Man-Servant cameun-
to me : And in a word we went to the houfe
and Chamber where the dead man lay : We
dilTedcd the naturall Region and found the
bladder of the young man full of purulent and
ulcerous matter : The upper parts of it bro-
kea» and all of it rotten: The right kid¬
ney quite confiimcd, the left tumified as
big as any twokidBics,and full of fanious mat¬
ter: All the inward and carnofe parts eaten a-
way & nothing remaining but exteriour skins.

No where did we find in his body either

B 2 Scone

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Sfonc or gf avcll. The Spleen and Liter not af-
fe(5led in any difcernable degree, only part of
the Liver was growne unto the Coftall meoi-
* Here thofe t>ranes, by reafon of his writing profeifion.
men may be Wee afeendingto the Vitall Region,found
handfomeiy the Lungs rcafouable good, the heart more
^wbofayLt globofe and dilated, then long 5 the right
thepuifeis no- Vcntrlclc of an afhe colour fhrivclled, and
!he"^]m ^ulfe"^ wrinklc'd like a leather purfe without money ,
o/bn"" into and not any thing at all in it : the Pericardium^
the Arteryes or and Nervous Membrane, which conreyneth
thehca?t)what that illuftiious liquourof the Lungs, in which
was become of the heart doth bath its fclfc , was quite dried
thepuifeinthis jiifo; The left Ventricle of the heart, being
wSe tiut^the ^elt by the Surgions hand, appeared to him
whole blood to be as hard as a ftonejand much greater then
fmTthc thejig.ht: which upon the firft fight gave us
here wLeiS fomecaufe of wonder, feeing ( as you know )
a living man the right Ventriclc is much greater then the
Tr ^pX Witt : wherefore I wiflied M. Heydon to
out the syftoic make incifion, upon which ilTued out a very
of the heart, great quantitV of blood ; and to fpeake the
the 7r*tct«t- whole verity, all the blood that was in his
ceive where body Icft, was gathered to the left-Ventricle,
b.tcS'V°andcontaynedinit *

or how could there be pulfe where was no impulfc into the arteryes? The
puife then doubtleflc is from another caufe, and is afatre othtr matter then
moll men conceive ; for there are in a found man 44.50 pulfations in an lioure,
in a ficke manforr.enmcs in fome perciitc fevers and difeafcs above 55600, and
more, which cannot be from fo many feverall exprelTions and receptions of
bloodj for iris impofiiblc the heart fliould make comprefBon, and the arteryes
apertion, fo often in thrtfpace. Nay xnDicrot ^ Capi^ant. and other inordinate
pulfes, diverfe pulfes ftrike in lefie fpace then the mouth of an artercy can goc,
much more then m Iciie times then it can open, ftiut,anJ open againe, which 5,
ads arercqu'.fite to the beginning of a fccond pulfc. But of this I hayc largely
treated in my j^Bookc 7)e Febribiis, No

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No fooner was that Ventricle emptied^
but yi.Heyden ftill co'ti plaining of the great-
neffc and hardnefleofthefame, my felfc Tee¬
ming to ncgle(5l his words, becaufe the left
Ventricle is thrice as thicke of flefh as the
right is in found men for confervation of
Vitall Spirits ; I direded him to an other diT-
quifition: but he keeping his hand ftill upon
the heart, would not leave it, but faid againe
that it was of a ftrangc grearnefic and hard-
neffe ; whereupon I defired him to cur the
Orifice wider : by which meanesweprefent-
ly perceived a carnoufe Tubftancejasit Teemed
to us wreathed together in foldcs like a
worme or Serpent, the Telfc Tame forme cx-
prelTed in the firft Icmography : at which we
both much wondred, and I intreated him to
Teperate it from the heart, which he did, and
wee carryed it from the body to the window,
and there layed it out, inthoTc juftdimenfi-
ons which arc here exprefied in the Tccond
figure.

The body was white of the very colour of
the whiteftskin of mans body; but the skin
was bright and fhining, as if it had bccnc var-
nifhcdover ; the head all bloody, and fo like
the head of a Serpent, that the Lady HerrU
then fhivered to fecit, and fince hath often
fpoken it, that file was inwardly troubled ar it,
becaufe the head of it was fb trucly like the
head of a Snake,

The thlghes and branches were of fiefh

B 3 colour

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colour>asalfo allthcfe fibracs,ftrings, nerves,
orwhatfocvcrclfc they were. . ' I '
After much contemplation and conje-
iftures what ftrangc thing that part of the
heartliad brought forth unto us^ I refolved to
try the certainty, and to make full explora¬
tion, both for mine ownc experience and fa-
tisfajftion, as alfo to give true teftimony
to others that fhouldheare of if: And there,
uponifearchedall parts of it, to finde whe¬
ther it were a pituitofe and bloody Col.
Icdion, or the like : Or a true organicall
body, and Conception ; J firft fcarched
the head and found it of a thickc fubftance,
bloody and glandiilous about the nccke,
fomewhat broken, ( as J conceived ) by a
fudden or violent feparation of it from the
heart, which yet feemed to me to come from
itcafily enough.

The' body I fcarched likewife with a
bodkin betweene the Leggs or Thighs, and
I found it perforate, ' or hollow, and a
folid body, to the very length of a filver
bodkin,, as is here deferibed: At which the
Spedatots wondered. And as not credi¬
ting me, fomc of them tookc the bodkin
after me, made triall themfelves> and re¬
mained fatisfied, that there was a gur,
Vcine or Artery, orfome fuch Analogical!
thing that was to ferve that Monftcr for ufes
naturall: Amongft whom the Lady Herrk
and the Surgian made tryall after me with

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their oWne hands, and have given theft
hands that this RelatijofI is c rub. This La¬
dy dwelleth at the figne of the Sugar loafc in
S. lames ftreet in the Convent Garden,

THis Grange and monftrous Embryon
borne in the faid Ventricle, which as
Hippocrates faith is nourifhed neither with
meats nor drinkes, Sed pur a ^ iUufiri
ftantia, taking aliment from the blood puri¬
fied out of the next Cifterne; made mec
( importuned with other occafions then )
to leave this new and rare Spedlacle in the
charge of the Surgion, who had a great
defire to conferve it, had not the Mother
defired that it fhould be buried where it
was borne 5 faying and repeating. As it
came mth him, fi it JhaM goe with him :
Wherefore the Mother flaying in the place
departed not till fhee had feene him fow
it up againe into the body after ray going
away.

Which as foone as I heard, I prefently
deferibed the forme of it at home, inter rarl-
ora a mereperta : And thus this Hiftory had
alwayes beene buried from the World,
(the Mother havingthus buried the Creature)
if your felfeand others hadnotdeffred a figure
and narration of it, which caufed me to cake
the hands, ahd'mmdes of fbmeofthbihWho

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were prefcne : Who being ocareft the young
man, were moft liloely to fay the beft, and
therefore bang befidcs people of good fame
and reputation might bee credited 5 confidc-
ring that they would fay nothing at all ei¬
ther againft their owne houfe, or againft ve¬
rity more then what apparent and clearc
truth fhould necelfitatc them unto : Which
from thcmfelves and under their hands,hcie
I have done.

There were alfo divers others, fuch as
dwelled in the houfe, and fomc that came
in^who beheld it,aftcr whom I have no Icifure
to enquire : But fuch who will fcarcc believe
their Creed, or any true mans word, or
that men have fenfes (which have alwa'ics
bcene reputed incorrupted WitnefTes, ) may
goe into the high buildings upon the Street
in Saint Giles Parifli, and at the corner
houfe next the greenc Dragon where the
Young-man died s they may make further
inquifition.

Since which time the Mother hath remoo-
ved hcrfelf^ into Bloomesburj ncarc unto the
houfe of oneMaftcr who dire(5i:ed me to
her lodgings 5 a man wcllknownc in all that
Region.-

Miftris Gentlemdn dwelleth neare unto S,
Clements Church in the Strand, and the
Chirurgion, or his man can diredtthem to
the houfe.

Moreover chat day all of us thac were pro-

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fcftt at this fight related to our friends, wives,
. of husibands what we had founds as the^ vs^ill

tcftific. . ^ , . ' . - j

The Hiftory therefore being verified

byasmuchteftimony as humane [perfwafion
need require: Except nothing but oath will
xontent fome, which if it (hall be found necci-
faiy to Authority : It will moft readily come
foith ■ alfo and obey ; It is moft requifite
that fomething be (aid of this or any fuch
like matters generated in mans heart, both
for the manner of their generation and the
way of their cure»and by what means fuch rare
and incredible caufes of death may bee found
out in time and taken away.

§.4.

S

Uch matters as thefe were worthy of
layout felfc, and a manof yourlongcxperi-
cnce. Yet becaufe this ftrange generation
was found by me, I will confult with y our
learning, rather then by any hafty refolution,

determine and difeourfe a little to flare a que-

ftion of no fmaldifficultysfinccHf/^/^^^r4m firft

hath given the occafion, which was thisj Cor
TiuUo tHorho labor heartlaboorethofnb di-
{€2i(c:Si.VnnccJ'vkerf,(or longinqttum ameumen'
r^,the heart is farr remote from dangers. And
vet contrary to thefe : V cry many Phyfitians
enumerate thefe difeafes of the heart ; the
murafmui^ Syncope, the Cor alack

Hip de morbis
^vieenl-i’ Jen

1 1,

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'Lypdfhymfy i^poJfems; VlcetSy B other dUy
Correfm o^Sithlimatei and I dire adde, dif-
cafes which afflidrhe heart by reafbn ofdiftil-
lauons" from the head in fome w'ho have had
the un(5lion r ■ Ttemors alfo and palpitations
of the heart; 2& Peter Ebanm in his Booke dc
Venenis : 'And the' Paralyjts of the heart , as
old Aurelianm in his fecond Booke of Slow-
papons : After Harophylue and ErafiBrdtue
have obferved.

And nowbf late Skinkim and others have
found wormes in CordU capfuls, which is
the Pericardium : But I fpeake more pre-
cifely and puntolly, that now in the
left Ventricle of the heart, this Worme
or Serpent hath bcene found : Which the
Mother of the Young- man faith, was at
lead of three yeares growth, for fo long
he complained of his breaft, and as (hee faith
would never button his Doublet in the Mor-
ning,butbeopcnbrcafted inall weathers, till
he had wafhed his hands and face,and was fub-
jed to palpitations.

Now then that wee may judge whether
Hippocrates, and Avicen dired their fpeeches ;
thele reafons are to be admitted.

Firft, from the fituation of the heart, i/t
medio medij pethris^ faith y^vicen ; in the
middle of the middle of the breft : which Ma¬
thematically is not true: for fo thebafisor
upper part , or caput onely is placed in an
Equidiftance from the diaphrdgma ( the in-

feriour

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ferioU£/«'f«^» I- iHClMmUi i and the

fMUtfU fitptrinr ) and bcuxcenc the rertdrx
oithehidicand the anterior Sterm».

The Second is, that the heart dwelleth in a 5.

ftrong pannicle, and fuchanone, that non iit~ corL^
■ venitar fannicultes compar ei in jpifitudi^, nt
^ CtjpeUf tntajnen •* that no pannicle is
comparable unto it, that it may be a (hield and

defence, untothe heart.

Thirdly, r./^w'cwaddeth, that the heatnt
felfe is created of ftrong flefti, that it may be
Unnnqmm anocumemts, in qao contexts fmt
ihecies ‘viUarum fortium : Divetfe ftrong
firings admirably woven together do bind
and ftrengthenthe heart, and give it aptitude
for motion, and reft fiance. fflnoeratcAot^g
before K^vicen faith the fame, and things of
greater confequence : Cor eft mnfttilia finis,

&c.- The heart is afirongmufclie,»r»»ets;a,
feddenftute carnu & conftrieime . not by his Mi(.uH fufrt.
nervous nature, but by folidity of flcfli and
conftriaion : And in the ^heart. there lye
hidden diverfe skins like fpidets webs ex¬
tended, which do fo bind and fhut the codes
of the forts, that no man ignorant, knowes

howtot2outtheheart,butwilltake_upone

for an other. Neither, can water or wind pe¬
netrate into the heart: and more; Car

cam habet cirenmdatm, & eil ,n tpfahumr
mdteue, &c. Vt cer fanum in enftodtafloref-
tat : hahet autem humidttatem tantam quanta

fat is e(i a kuanti in medeUm : hmc kffmsrem cor
f J ^ Q 2. emungtt

emsngh hlbeH tO afjhmtns ^ e&iifum:ns,
fulmo^is nlmiram ptum hmhtns : H- fp-akes
further of chccov^r called the that

nothing may enter that way but what is con¬
venient 5 So that feeing the heart is fortified
with fuch ftrength of ribbs ; with fuch co¬
vers, fuch skins, fuch fortitude offubfiance,
fuch denfity of Hefh, fach excellence of li-
quour, fuch curious filaments, that nothing
can cnte>> hurt, or come neere the heart to
make it ficke : but that it is able to defend it
felfe, both by its ownc fituation, ftrength,
and happy condition in very many rcfpe<fts,
and keepe out or put backe whatfoever alfo
by force (hall come neere unto it: It remaineth
that the heart is nor, neither can be fubje(ft to
any difcafe,or at leaft not eafily.

Yea thofe other men- who enumerate the
difeafes oftheheartj grant, as chiefely
CU4 de 7 bar ant 4 and the \^rabians all confefle
that a hapneth, or elfe death as foonc

asany difeafe approachcih, orhurt toucheth
the fubftance of the heart 5 alfo K^vicen, Pe¬
trus de Ebane rebte that the forementi-oned
difeafes kill as foone as any of them touch
the fubftance of the heart : Herofhyltu

coefeffed that fudden death followed if a
Pardyfis once furprized the heart : And for
Bothers OX PhUgrridSi or Erijipelas or the like
they fay that they arc dileafes of the heart
witiative only 2nd- mi fubjecH've^ to dwell
there anl5? time.

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And indeed lam fully; perfwaded that the
heart fuflereth a pyiv4UvB, by ne¬

gation of due tranfmilTion from other parts,
rather then that marcor fhould follow cordis
JuhJiantfd ariditatem for if any part have
good fubftance in k, the' heart hath^ and
therefore Hippocrates faith, that ^jstaftde femes
refic^atl fuerint homo moritur : that the Ven¬
tricles have the laft humidity in them: where¬
fore Galen feemeth to defert his Maker in
ikying, a cordis ariditate incipere malum. Viz,
veram feneHutem intent urn naturalem.

Whereas hee Ihould have faid the contrary :
that the aridity of the heart followeth the
deficcation and want of due tranfmillion of
other parts: Yee if J may fpeake my mind
freely, Hippocrates is not to be taken finrpfy,
that the heart cannot be any way es affefted j
but perhaps in the fenfe of Galen, that the
heart fuffereth little or nopaine by reafbn
the fubftance of the heart hath but little'
fenfation , having but one little nerve
for feeling from the fixt Conjugation,^
and that is fomewhat obfeure alfo. Or if
hee meane , as indeed I am fure hee
doth , that difeafes doe not aflFc<3: the
heart ’; hee is to bee underftood that or¬
dinarily they doe not, but very fcldome,
by reafon of the carnous parts. Cor folidum
ac denfum ut ab humort non agrotet, ^ propi
terea null us snorhus in corde aberitur, caput
autem Splen maxim} fimt morbis ab~

C 3 noxia.

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0O}C(d,rli\s fpecch is evidently comparative;
elfc wee fee very often that which hee never
faw in all his long life and experience ;
And indeed we fee now very frequently the
heart ,affe<fted with ImpofthiimeS, with
Wormes, with AbfccfTcs, with Fleamy con¬
cretion both in the Eares of the heart and
Vciitricles,yeaand now with a Serpent : And
yet men live divers yeares with them, and
many other difeafes both fer ejfcntiam dr
C#;?/e»y^jw,allkindcofdiftenipers both cquall
and unequall, of which the Ancients have
left no memory nor mention unto us, with
which the Books of late Phyficians are re-
pleate. Wherefore the propofitions of the
Ancient Phyfitians muft have a friendly inter¬
pretation; or elfe mens hearts now a daies
arc more pafifible and obnoxious unto difeafes
then in former ages, which by me as yet can¬
not cafily be admitted : Wee are forced
therefore to conclude that the heart ferejfen-
primaho fulfje^i've m2.y he
wicha difeafcandcaufcof death, and it can¬
not otherwife be conceived^ feeing fuch crea¬
tures are begotten in it;yct doubcles exteriour
difeafes kill fooncr then innate.

§. 5.

“nUtthis then begets agreater queftion, how
Jjthis Monfter or fuch as this fhould bee bc^
gotten or bred in the heart, fo defended, as

hath

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hath beetle faid, marc then all the body, and
in the moft’defended part ofthc hcattythe left
Ventricle three times thicker of flefliand fub-
ftance then the right ^rasalfoof what matter f
feeing that Cell is poflefTed and replenilhed
with thcbeftjpurefta'nd moftilluftrious liquor
in the body, the blood Arteriall and the vitall
fpirits.

There arc who conceive that pervious paf-
fages may be found for little Wofmes and the
like to enter into the heart: but they muft give
a better way then any that J have yet fccnc
doe, as al fp the Wormes muH be very little.
Others fay^ that fuch matters arc caufed by
the ill habit of the heart 5 by ^ which if they
meancthefubftanceof the heart, it is not to
be receaved, till the heart hath beenc hurt
by ill diftributionsand tranfmiflions which in
ourcafeisothervvifc : for balfc of the heart,
the left Ventricle, ( the Matrix of this Ser¬
pent j was folid and ftill good : Where¬
fore it is nor in the ill habit of the fubftancc.

Others thinke that thofc Wormes which
create fometimes the mat della luna , as the
ItalUm terme it, living in the fericardium, and
gnawing the heart : Of which there are
innumerablcStories,

HebenJlreitUb.defefiettlUth us'one^ of a
Priftco to whofe heart a fehite' Wormes

j w as found cleaving with a jharf and horny

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1 K^lexiui fcdmomanm , lib,! Jeer et,

telleth

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uUeth m of an other : and To CMath:.
Corvar: lih2,c.?.S. Confult:med.

In Stowe’s CronnicU ad annum 1585.
iLElizabeth, a matter of this nature^
in an Horfe is recorded as a memorable
thing in thefe wordes, ■

'The Seventeenth day of March, a franco
thing banned, the like whereof before hath
riot beene heard of in our time, MaHer
Dorington ^Spaldwiclc^^ the County
of Hummgion Efquire , one of her Ma-
)efi ies G ent lemen Tentioners', * had an horfe
which died fuddenly^ and being ringed to
fee the caufeofhts deaths there was found
intheboledftheheartof the fame horfe, a
^ Worme which lay on a round hea^e in a kali

or skinny ofthelikeneffeoJaToade- which

being taken out and ff re ad abroad, was
in forme and fa/hion not eafe to be de-
t feribed The lengt h of which worme divi-
I ded into many graines to the number of
ffty {fpred from the body likethe branches
of a Tree) was from the from to the end of
- thelon0 graine feventeene inches, having
foure if ues in the graines from which drop-
fed forth a red water : The body in big-
nefe round about was three inches and a
\ haife} thecolour whereof was very like a
j ■ Mackerel, This monjirous worme found
1 ' in manner aforefaid, crawling to have got
j away, was ftabbed in with a dagger and
X died which being drytd was frewedn

many

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,1. ; 04»jhtmtrMeffrfr»dges§fikiiRedmi.

- Chronicled, how. much moic may
this be memorized for Pofterky Or
i that which you have, or that which you
. told me was found in the heart ofthc
hox^Bedew.

By reafon thefe were found in Men,
that in ’an Horfe : and this found by me
of greater lengths and more certainc
forme, then that which they could not

tell how to deferibe. - ' • ^ ■‘> -

As alfo thofc pecccs of black flcfli gcnct!a- '
ted in the kfiVemiiclc, .o£which ^<'wVw^
hiftorizeth onc,”C.35. dedditisy in forme
a Mcdler, upon the Artery : and VefdtMjtb.

de humm cerforis jAbrica, fpeakethot
a m'oft Noble and . learned Perfonage, in
the left Ventricle of whofc heart, two
pounds of blacke glandulous flefh were
found ; the heart extended like a pregnant

vombe. r • j

Yea and .ptmtefi carnofities and

)thcr matters, fo often fecncin thelcftycn-

ricle, by NeretM Neretius that famous Phy-

hthn o£ Florencgy and Eraftf^,p4rt.$. dijpur

\at.defcb. putrid: may be generated in the

^ericArdium^ either by drinkes of lU condition

diding into the r and fo into the Ar-

:eriesr and the heart: and fomctiaacs fomc

fmall feedes or attomesor creeping creatures, dtvms
which C#w/»w Gtmmd fettethforth fufficient- 4har»<,mfmi.

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In

thi$ kind6, »s fi^c and }er^

ferns of Grange formes; and it is a common
fayirtgof the Pedemntanes, and fuch as drinkc
the w^rs oithc'Aifes '^ that every fuch man
borne hath a Frog to his brother. Such
things may pafTe into the ftomak'v bu: rarely
intothe heart. ' - ^

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)0 sir- , hn. k- 5.

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BUt that which I have to fay, is this 5 that
thefc ftrange and extraordinary genera¬
tions are caufed from the temperament indi¬
vidual! , for you well know that there is a
double temperament; the one Spccifieall,
the other. individual! ; the one \% fixum and
unalterable-, the other is temperdmentum
fiuxum, and .accidentall;

As for -the Specificafi temperament al-
thoi^h the vitall ai^sceafe, ytt the fpecif call
a(^ is never changed 5 for you fee that the
parts of this or that animall , rctainc their
Jpeclfcall vertuc when they are dead; as
herbes, or thofe partes of herbes, as leave',
feedes or rootes, kcepe their property, and
retainc their owne heates or favours, when
they, are cut away , - or ^ taken up from the
ground : Yea and there are certaine fpecifike
atoms which alwayes continue after putre-
/. fa^ion, -and extreame drincfic in the fixed

‘ ^ ' Sum

wr

S^niigitm : '^r^Zucret.iib.i.

‘ Sedmdgis-‘Sem4p'6liemi4'fif»f^^ickafc^^
yude tiecj^ av4^ quiequafTpnej^ dirmmi )4m . ;,{

^: .X^ffceda pdtur4r^ifervdfi^femi)^4^I?ifs^ . .t

icTto t^mpcramerrti is prop^ every
creature: for Man hath his tern pcramenf,
the Lyon his, hyfopp his, and the rofc his
ownc ;'For God made every thing, fecmdtm
fpeeies fr.th & genere fit& froducat aqm m
jpecies & om^e volatt/c fecntjdim genm

fttum, . . 1

Dei^ fecit beJltA^ juxtd fpecies ftas omm
ifi gemre fmj ^ prsds^cat tens
'mimAmin gencre fiO.Scc,

Wheriore the Spccificall temperament of
Socrater doth not di&r from die temperament
olHifpcrdteSyTlatd, Cdto, or any other man:
which may be well put againft Arifiotle, who
thought the foules of men did diff<^ in no¬
bility one from an other : which difference
can no way be founded upon the tempera¬
ment fpccifically, but rather upon thejndi-
viduall, which is but the accidcntall confti-
tution oftheindividcialls of the famej^mw 3
which followeth fome peculiar determina¬
tion of tfr horofeopant 3 or clfc upon fome
other fpcciall hclpe, or hindcrance3 as from
the Angular feite of Heaven , afeention of
Starres, arpc(5i: in flux, the aliment of pa¬
rents, either more or Icffe elaborate $ and

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mtny other tn liters every creifure bornie hath
according to the felicity ot infcUcit/ of his
generation : ' efpecially Man, who of all other
creatures is houriflied with naoft variety of
meates and drinkes : We alfo fee every day
that fuch men are more hot, and vivacious,
who are borne cither in the Starres of or

the Sun orient tail : they alfo to be of more
fuculent habit, who are born within thcfccond
^Wr<iftfoftheMoon:and fuch to be leaftviial,
who are born in the filcnceof the Moon,herbs
alfogathered the Moon, decrcafing, have IcfTc
force:&thc very foilc often doth either fo aug¬
ment, or dwarfe plants, andherbes, and give
them fuch ftrange conditions, that they are
found degenerat,and fcarcely the fame herbs:
As for the prolifick matter, it breedes ( as
Phyficions fay) a male, or female, as it is
more or IclTc concodted : There arc alfo di-
verfe conjundl matters, which hclpc or hin¬
der gencration,as fuch matter doth which dif-
fererh much d fun^is ffeeijieU , ov a femncy
for the fperma may be much, which is matertd
Augment dtiv A, but the feed is fo little of which
a giant is generated’, that as nevum lumen
faith: it can be no greater at firft moment of
conception, then in proportion to the 8 loo.
part of a graine of whca^c 5 which confirmeth
that of Ariftctlcy that the fortieth day after
conception, hme formica nen major •y from
which augmentative matter it is (which is
made of various arid alterative aliment ) that
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children differ fo much from bofh their owfic
parents: hence one fweaccs and fwcarcs at
the fight of a Cat : and an other forfakesthc
table acthe fight of aPigg^or Goofc 5 the rca-
fons of which antipathies and divcrfitics, are
founded in the latent matter fpermatike^ as if
the Mother of one , fbmewhat before her
Sonne was begotten, had eaten a moufe;
and the ot her fed upon the cares of a Jew.

All which is faid to iiruftratc, that there
is in many men, a ccrtainc connate matter and
obedientall, fufceptible of divers difeafes,
and infelicities : Wherefore it was not fo an¬
ciently, as worthily faid 5 Ftelici^imum efi
bene rtdjci, it is a moft happy thing to be well
borne.

And from this Diatbefes and ill difpofitions
may many a ftrangc fickneflc in after ages
fpring, as time, diet and other accidents doe
alter or intend i he heat, cold, or acrimony
of the humour and blood, or fome other qua-
lity.

L pray Sir^ note well the faithfull Rchtioti
©famoftimderftandingandfincere mao, M.
jehnWhi filers one of the Be»"chers of Gmes^
Jmmnd Recorder -of Oxftfrdi who upon my
Karration of this Hiftory of lahn Pedant
( the very fame day, or the next that I
found thcScrpentjjtold me that in his youn-
gcr dales himfclfe was a great Cock- Mafter,
and one of his old fighei^ Cocks beginrjrg
todroope, he thought it bcti to’cut off his

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hcid> . whlc^ as roonc as it wa$ done, there
appeared and fhot out b«jveene the-skinn®
another head and neck,' like-char of his Cock,
butkwasakinde of gelly (as hec conceived)
wicha very fine skin uponir, with a bill and
a little combe: The reft was not fearched,
'which perhaps wasbred of fome Egg in the
body of the Cock,, which.kind of Concepti¬
ons are very rare, yerthe facred Scripture ma-
keth mennon of CcckatrUff i: Which doubt-
leflp cannot be bred but offome hunsour or
blood exalted to fome extraordinary and pre-
tcrnaturall degree of hear, cold, or fliarpc-
fiefle, orfome other quality: 7 Which fi/ft
the naturall heat and valour of that bird proo-
veth : Secondly his martiall profcflion and
terrible battclh performed almoft to dearh,all
his life long 5 as alfo being begotten of fuch
like Anceftors, himfelfe alfo exccllingln heat
and fiery fpiritsaccidcntall.

Com pare this Young-mans flatc alfo with
this hiftoryjhis right kidny wholy confumed*
hisleft tumifiedasbigasany twajeidnies or
three, full of ulcerous matter: So likewife
his bladder full of ulcer, and roccennelTe, and
not^ginhisbady fo be found the caufeof
this : , n, Wherefore the fliarpneflcand extraor¬
dinary heace of the blood or fome fuch like
quality was the caufe of the Ulcers, and fo
alloconfequcntlyof that extraordinary pro-
dudion in the heart : ,For nothing els appea-
rcth whatfoever may be conceived ; And this

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accidental! temperament of the blood > I
take to be the caufe Q^b|s which we found in
the heart ; For in the heart (if any where)
was the greateft hcaf> and if in any part of the
heart in the left Ventricle, the principall r«-
ccptacle of arterial 1 blood and fpirits i And
■Ihave moreto confirme me in this opinion,
having certaine knowledge both of the diet
of his Mother and Grand-mother alfo, and of
his owne : Which I am not willing to raake-
publique; but to make private ufeofitto my
felfe.

All which flial] not by me bee intended to
prejudice any other better judgement concer¬
ning other like conceits 3 byreafon that paf-
fages to that Ventricle may be fometimes per¬
vious ,although very rarely : Buttoinformc
you of fome peculiar knowledge that I have
of this mans Hiftory 3 which may give us
great light concerning others of like condi-

tion. . . . '

I could here difeourfe how the imagination
-produceth ftrange things in men 3 and wor-
keth not only in our owne bodie-s, but alfor>
hyle mmdi, as Bacon prooveth, tk

Prince Avicen : But this Twill not acterape, (s* mvaiG
except you (hall jiidge this Relation may be
bencficrall to any> and then I fluli difeufle it
out at krge. ' ’ . r

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BtJ^o mcthcrerolutionof this matter fee-
meth very profitable ro know how thefe
things may be bred in men, for I Tuppofe,
men from hence will take fpcciall care to alter
the accidental! temperament of humors,if they
find them excell in any high degree of hcatt,
' cold, fharpnesjOrthe like, fuch as have in them
incohvenience and danger, and to deale with
learned Phyfitians in time.

So alfo is the knowledge of fingular ufe and
benefit to know when mcn areaffe^acd with a-
ny fuch difeafe^and how they may be cured.

As for the knowledge of abftrufc and fc-
crctaffe(5Uons, whereperhaps no dolor gives
certitude«ofthc pJace afFe(5led, as in difeafes
byconfent, when fomeother pans arc more
afflidcd,fuch skill is worthy of a Phyfitian,
and at any rate to be procured : But how or
where (hall we have it ^ Whowritethofitf
Whohathfomuefi as ever dreamed of any
fuch helpe to mankinds For mine ownepart
I never yet read of any fathogmmomca

of any fuch difeafe: Neither ^doc I know
whereto find one graine of inftriidlion in this,
as alfo In divers other difeafes (which I can
nominatej morethenfrom raineowncobfer-
varion and care. Wherefore if I fer dowce
one thing which is not common nor els where
to be fgund.I hope you will take it as my good

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wifli Unto the Confmm-wtidth of PhylifianSjand
I will lay my ground upon two Hiftorics of
mineownrthe one was in Deceml;er,amo.L6^^.
For being fent for to a yong gentleman whofe

Buckmdge Ton unto M.^r-
thur Buckcridge now oiTottenham Gentleman,
v/ho wasfickof that kind of pox which our
Country people call the Flocks, which were
many, flat headed, white,and wrought along,
asifwormeshadmadc certaine crooked fur-
ro-wes among them, which when at firfl: I be¬
held, I wasvery diffident in my felfe of do¬
ing any cure, becaufe I never knew any of
thatdifeafe and manner faved; Yet while
rhe friends of the Youth declared unto race
what an ingenious child and fchollerhc was,
and what hopes alibis friends had of him : I
ftill beheld the variegation, or vermiculation
ofthatkindofw/W.«; Andbecaufe noPhy-
fitianinall my reading ever gave me the
Icaft light or helpe to cure them : J more
ftudioufly fcarchingtbccaufeof their forme,
ftrongly apprehended that that outward work
and waving could proceed from no caufe, but
from putrefadl:ioncaured of worms-, and that
God and nature did afliftinfo greatadifficulty,
fhewing by this external {ignacurcchc internall
caufe, taking therefore my Jndkame from the
Con]undiivt{^% Galen counfellcth very well} J
preferibed chiefly againft wormes and inward
putrcfadion,and in very fliortfpacc he was re-
ftoredtohis health r And while I write thefc

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thiDg%thcyodg-man(whomJ never rawfince)
comtneth in to my houfe to (earch after me,
and to give me thanks To long after, being
fliortly to goc for Oxford: Wherefore to
conlirme this Hiftory I fent unto the Young-
mans Apothecary to fee what was yet upon
filejtoafccrtaine what I fay 5 and it is retur¬
ned me, thattvvoof my bils are yet there re¬
maining : Asalfo onehonefl Gentleman re-
membreth well that I then cxpreflcd as much
and told his friends that I intended to preferibe
againft the worms principally.

The other Hiftory was of this I ohn Pennant,
whom wc diffeded 5 who was well known
unto me, as his friends and others well can af¬
fine it* in whom as is likewife fufficiently
knowne, I very often noted this, that he
had an excellent Eye, but extraordinarily
fharpe, and like the Eye of a Serpent
and fo much I have fpoken of it, that divers
Gentlemen and good Schollers did make an-
fwer unt® me that heard of his long difeafes of
thefuppofedftone, or ulcer of the bladder ;
that pains and griefes did fharpen mens
a^pe<^^s : But finding what we have feenc irt
him, thus much fhall mine owne obferva-
tion teach me everj Let others doe, or be¬
lieve as licf leas they plcafe, that /eeret, unu^
fuall and ftran^ in ward difea fa , doe fend forth
fime radios, or fignatures from the center, o/-
nalpgicall to the circumference, hy which we
may finds the caufes if we he di ligent and care^

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full : And this is that which I would com¬
mend of which I know no man that hath
written one word as yet : Which although
athrftKfccmcth.new, yet if men will well
coniidcr it and what I fliall fay I doubt not but
they will be confirmed, that it is an accurate
and a moft necclTary obfervation, and a
chiefe Window to fee into the moft fecrcc di-
feafes and Clofccs of the body and heart
alfo.

And fir ft as an introdudion Co belicfc
what helps Phyfitians may have from beames
and fignaturcs. All learned Phyfitians
will thus farre goe vvith me, that this was
that admirable way of the old tJi'tagitiam to
find out the natures of medicines, from their
peculiar beamsjfignatures and fimvlitudes,and
tlut there is no Simple or medicine Specif cd
(as they fay)or excellent for any difeafe or ve¬
ry few, but we arc able to make the radij or fig-
natures to appcarc, from which thofe learned
MAgl did, or might find out the properties and
virtues of thofe Simples or mediciRes,and this
you know to be true, and this way you all
Y^Q'sjiji\x2XSpmfaSol(S onht Kirarntdes of the
Syn4s w^nt,as that book of the King o^Perfia
Ihewcth, which I lent unto you; and you have
no doubt many volumes of Phyfitians as well
as others who have written of this argument.
Wherefore feeing it* is fo cleare that figna-
tures and beames have fo excellently and
clcarely difeovered the virtues of all medi-

E 2 cines

clnes latent and abftrufc. Shall we conceive
that God and Nature arc deficient in affor¬
ding outwardly fome helps to know the in¬
ward, fccret and ftrangeft maladies ^ It can-f'
notbe:Fortowhatpurpofcis ic, that the Sim¬
ples have virtues medicinal!, and for every
difeafe, if fome difeafes may not be dif-
vered, and how can they bee difeove-
veied within, to. which no eye can come f
from which nothing is received, as in fome
other dikafes. Some are knownc by time,
as Feavers, keeping Period : Some by place
or part affe(5i:cd, nsCholick, K^ngwcy Stone
in the reynes, and the like. Some by cx-
cretions,as DHTcnterics. Some by fuch like
and others more or Icffe : But there is
no meaneS 'to difeover fuch a thing as this
that hath given occafion of all this difeourfe,
for nothing wascxccrned ofit any waies, ,or
from if that could give any light:- No topicall
griefe fo great as that in his reynes and
bladder, he did complainc of his bread and
of a beating there fometimes 3 but Pdfttatit
cordis is Jignum commme did this man

complainc as he did alwaies of his other affe-
<Siions. Neither can it beimagined how fuch
a fubftance growing and receiving daily aug¬
mentation in his heart could bedifeoveredby
the wit of man, but by fome outward thing
fingular and unufuall, as a fpcciall radm of
what was within. '

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Itruft then that this fpeculation and pra-
dife will in time be thought of, and that it
may, I will fee this fignature upon it (ab
though feldome or fcarce ever noted by any
except by Friar Baconln his Booke de CaIo ^
mundo^^c. More efpeGially by that incom¬
parable the moft learned man

that the Eaft fince his time, or long before
hath brought forth unto the world : that
every thing hath his ra^os froprm^ as well
as rh e ftarres of Heaven have : his

wordes are thefe, in his Treatife deradtjs^ as
a-firmc conclufion, and fufficiently thereby
him confirmed ^ K^gite ergo cum mmdm
'Ekmentms fit exemplummundiy ha qupdqu^-
Itbet res in ipfo contenta ipfitis jpeciem contmet::
Manifejluw efi quod omnis res hu]U4mmdi five
ft fubfantia, five accidens^ radios ftchfito modo
dd tnUarfiderum^ altoqmn figuram mmdi fyderci
ad plenum non haberet. But this we willma-
nifeft to the fenfe in fome few ( faith hce )
the fire tranfmitteth his Beames to a cenaine
diftance : the earth -fends out her beames of
colde, ofmedicincj and ofheakh*, and me- -
dicincs taken into- the body, or outwardly
applied, diffufe their-bcames through the -
wholebody of him that receives tliem*; the
collifion of foiid bodies makes a found which
diftufeth it fclfe by the beames of the thing

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moved : and every coloured body fendeth
out his beamesjby which ic is perceived, and
this is fubtely knowne in moft other things :
by. ^^j/hich by njwt reafon « is <ertaincly
knowne ro.be true in all rhiagsjtaking -this
therefore for truth wee fay, that every thing
which hath a(5luall exiftence in the elemen¬
tary world, fendcs forth his beames, which
£U .the elementary world afrci-their manner,
whereupon every place of this world con-
tayneth the beames of all things which are
atShrally exiftent in every place ; And as every
thing differeth from others fothe beames of
evciy thing do differ in ejfFe<^ and n tture from
the beames of all other things, by which it
comes to paflfe that the operation of the
beames is diverfcin.alldiverfethings; Thus
farre, and much more Ikindm to the fame

and like'cffe^.* Yet I will ad fome few in-
Aances more. The feverall fmclles of all
things in the world, are their feverall r^d'^
whieh doc difeover thendelves unto us, and
we perceive them to be, many times where
wc fee them not: Wee. fmell Rofes, Musk,
Civit? Amber, Quinces, Apples> Plantes
and herbesofall fortes, and very many other
thinges inroomes or boxes, before wc come
ncere them v and’we are moft times aftured
of fuch things to be ncere us, by their proper
and peculiar emanations, or irradiations,
which are their fpecifick beames, darting
out and diffufing themfclvcs from one cen-

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ter, imto a Certaitic diftancc , according^to the
vertue of the fpecies or his. proper nature^
which may doubt leffc alfo be intended, or
remitted, or varied, and fo makeftrong pro-
jedion , according to the redtitude of line,
or clfe be debilitated according to the pro**
portion of obliquation: but this I infift not
upon.

^ Petted things alfo have their radtes^ accor¬
ding to their owne proper nature, and thei’e
is the fame reafon of them in all points accor¬
ding to their fpecies : The colours of other
things are alfobeames: andthe very truth is,
that as all thinges in the world have their pro¬
per radios : fo all the adions that they have
is by vertue ofthefe .* and as Alkindia
faith, by thefe bcames is excrcifed in cm-
jundium localiter, out in feperatum : which th«
Schoole-men call tmmediatio virtutis^ orim-
mediatio fippojiti : in both, nothing is done
Jine radijs^ nor truly knowne : As for exam¬
ple, If two men come clofe togetheri one
cannot ftrike another, Jmmedutione fappefttiy
except the animaUs radij aduatethc nerves
and mufclcsof the hand, and therefore imme^
diatio w/<s^/^isfuppofed. Thefe fpirits arc
the radij dnimaUsy and by thefe every adioo
arbitrary or not arbitrary is cfFedIcd in or by
man, and every other creature.

And as cleare to us is that adion which is
performed immdiatmt wmis \x\ other
creatures^ for wefee an Adamant to draw

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yi!oia a! a diftance : A looking Glaflfe to -re-
prefcnt the Images of things fepacated
from the glalTe : And this we know muft
bee by fomc EmilHon or proje(5bon of
beames one towards anorher; as well as
by thcEmiillon of the aniniall fpirits from
the braine into the nerves. And a mar¬
vellous wonder it hath beene to me to fee
how Mineral Is purified and defecated from
heterogeniallmxwxxzsj^nd^mg themfelvcs free
doeftrike outthcmfelvesin any liquour into
■branches and Starrs, as is acknowledged by
Phyfitians, calling them medtcinats fteUntas^
as mtercurius Stellatm : Regulas
Stellatdf, &c. and not onely Uiiimrals doe
thus, but the Salt of vegetables, and animals
I have made fo, that they will doc the like:
6othat it is evident that every thing in the
world hath his beames 5 and it cannot, nor
ought not to be othervvire,fith the nine times
moftblclTedandmoft glorious EiTenfator of
allthings who hath beene fo diffuiive, as to
branch out himfelfc into every thing vilible
and invifible, that any thing fhould not have
fomelikenefle unto him who made all things
fummaraticne, and with as great perfections
as their feverall fpecies were capable oE
And for them therefore not to Ihcw them-
fclves,and who was their Father, it> is impof-
fib^e.

. Ccelum in urrd/ed medoterreflri :

T^rraefl n C^kyfid modoCoelefii :

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" Ycci even puttid hi’tnouiS? and materiall
“caiifts of difeafes, as ‘bcirg natiiraJl things
though corrupted are good : and have
their'beames and their fgnatures in favours,
puftks, bubos, fpots, and tokens without,
of divers forts according to the feverall fpe-
cies of the humour putrified within, or from
thecommixtion with other caufes by which
a-Phyhtian ismuch inflrudicd, what is with¬
in, and how to rake heed himfelfe^ ana to
come home to the very point, and caufc of all
thisDifeourfe, we fee in all kind of Animals
in the world f and doubt nor- but your
incrediblc' dcfire to 1<noW and ' excellent
naturail fagacity hath often obferved )
that according as their artcriall blood is
exalted , fuch are in their Byes^ as
we fee in fome men more then others, and ,
in Cocks, and in Serpents : A Gocke hath
an Eye are almoft exalted to

thebeamesof the Eye of a Serpent : And
doubtleffc fuch blood had tliis man, and fuch
fpirks of an incredible heate o r acri- «
mony : The Eye is an l^afex
cannototherwife bethen by the or fpi-
ritsof it, much more then doth it lliew the
blood artcriall upon which thofe fpirits are
founded^ and thus from the Eye I have made
k evident, that we may know much of the
left Ventricle of the heart where the artcriall
bloudis' elaborated and made : And thus

in other matters, if from thcrad^’ or fignatures

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exterior we play the good and dili¬

gently confider them : I am perfwaded wee
may haveafingularhelpeand infight to cure
themoft hidden and moft dangerous difeafes
of all, and fuch as otherwife cannot be known.
You fee Sir, I have founded my fentence upon
God, Nature, and Experience, and if it be
hidden or not believed by apy, it is to
them incredible who have grofic conceptions,
fmall skill, as J am fure your great infight
and wifdome will and can better confirmer
For what is that which makes feme men
wifer then others ^ Magis fapiens eft ^
dicltur qui minus ferceftibilia percipit
rebus dr esirum condithnibus , faith that
wife man Alkindus : There is no doubt ther-
fore (a^the fame man faith) but that they
who are informed with an holy defire of
wifedomcwill labour much to comprehend
the fecret conditions of things,as the an-
dent Phyfitians did who with wondcrfull fa.
gacity fearched for that skill which we in joy ;
As for fuch as are neither wife nor have
defire of wifedome, I leave them to
Ptelemey that other miracle of knowledge
to inftrucS: the world of them 3 Reprehen^
dmt inftpientes quod mn comprehendunt ,
unwife men reprehend all that they doe not
comprehend.

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■ .,' ■ ’ T^v. i : ■ • ■

IT rcmalnes onely tharTotnahiBg be faid
of the cure of fuch Conceptions if by
' any Phyfician they be perceived in tirtie :
Either by pulfation of the heart or by
any cxternall figne or (ignature, .or
dromz^.

There are fome who ufeno alterants nor o-
thcr peice of art then to kill and diflTolve
fuch conceptions : and they confide in this.
\\,Succi AlUjiNaftHrtijyRafham^ ana.%-), detur
flatim curaUtur, So Schemkins from
S t ocher fu. Others thus. Rr. Tanacetiramdum
in umbra Jiccatftmjn pt^lvercm reda^um cribella-
iumj^fCui addaUir fnlvis Jequens, l^c.Rad gen¬
tian. Rad. Pdonin longAy ana.%d\* Mprrhsy ^.15.
rmfie,tere ^ cum utt volueris.
€umgtfttulaaqu£ ut folum made(iat mifce-^emde
inungC' es & lahra inf antis aut faticntis
ter aut qunter, ^ una cum c&uris medtcamen-
iis eijcientiir. So Schencktns. This 1 grant
is good for wormcs that caufe Epikptih fits
in children, but for fuch as lie deeper in the
pericardium and the left Ventricle, it is not
likely they will be fenfible of, at fo great a di-
ftance and inclofure : I rather thinkc that the
ufe of fome oylcs which are more penetrative,
may do more good, as fome drops of olei de
Sabina in aqua jmjentutis, R^mundi or olei
ex Baccis luniperl^ob eqws penetratham virtu-

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tern, maywith Tome continuance or with the
fucccfic before mentioned be more effica¬
cious: But why am I fo hrge fpeaking to
you i But to lay fomc grounds of future dif*
courfcs with you,conccrning both prefcrvaci-
on and cure of fuch latent maladies, rather then
hereto fet them out.

§. lO.

Yet for conclufion I haveonely this one
thing to note unto the world : how that thefe
which feeme fo rare, ftrange, and incu¬
rable mifchiefes , might be more familiarly
knowne , and eafily cured , if it were not
for a babifli,. or akinde of cockney difpofi-
tioninour common people, who think their
children or finendes murdered after they are
dead, if a Surgion fliould but pierce any part
of their skinncs with a knife; by which it
comracch to paflc , that few of thofe innu¬
merable and marvellous conceptions, which
kill the parents in which they are bred, (as
your fclfc with admiration have knowingly
fpoken to me of their infinite number which
arc generated in mans body ) can ever be
found ouf, or cured : fo great a monficr is
begotten in the blood of foolcs, and fearc-
full people, which deflroyeth the common
good of man-kinde in a very great propor^
tion ; whereas that knowledge of their
generations, which Phyfitions have, ia

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commonly from the difTciSlionsbfthebodics
of Noble Pcrfonagcs, and of the Gentry,
who with their fricndcs about them have
bccne bred to more fortitude , and are more
wife and communicative, as mod of ourme-
dicinall hiftories, you know condrme , and
your fclfc likewife hath told me of fbme.
All vertuous and heroick foules know that
when their particle of divine pcrfe(flion is
returned to him that gave ir, that thentheiV
bodies are to ferve the univerfe ( as that
pious Bidiop knew ) who when he had gi¬
ven away all befides his body, at lad gave
that alfo for the good of the living, -when it
diould be found dead, and therefore bequea¬
thed it CO the Phydeians to dided it : but
doubtlelfc our TradcfiTicn, their wives and
children, and our fugar-fop citizens are com¬
pounded of ararer, mli met anger
are dead then when they were alive; 'And
though Nobles and Princes may be cut in
peeces, yet is \i fuetdar ^ and the lode of
grace for ever with them , if a Phidcian^
fliould^but intimate fuchamattcras decently
but to operr any part of their mod intemcrate
impes.

But what good more frequent dideedions
might doe, what portentuous matters they
might difeover , and how dicile they might
finde the caufes, and their cure , you fuffi-
ciently know , and in part others may by
this hiftory underdand : And although the

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Jcarning and knowledge of- feme Phifitions
of our age be fingular, and growne to fuch
an happy degree of perfe<Jiion, yet there are
by dilTedions every day foinething’ to be
learned : and how much theinternall do hm-
bolize with external^ as in part I have dif.
covered , and J will yec give out one il-
luftration more : let but Phifitions well note
their patients comple<Sions , and colours
(for this time I will onely Ipeakcoftheface)
and let them takeafterwarej if they come to
difiedt them notice of their livers, and if
they be diligent, infewdifie<5iioiisthey /hall
be able, looking into any mans face what-
foever, to know the af^e<^^iofls very manife/l-
ly of his liver. Sir, under favour, and with
you ] have thus much frecdome as to tell
forae of my brother Phifitions and Sur-
gions^ that the infpedions and di/Tedi-
ons which they celebrate over the world,
arc not to inablc men to taike of names,
parts and places , but to doe , and to
be able to judge of thinges hidden and
fecreCj^that they may not be deceived tou¬
ching thecaufes of mens difeafes: this is the
chieM end, and yet how few ftudy out of
cntrailcs this learning, I neede not intimate
unto you. c

The wayes of nature, by which opera¬
tions arc c/Fc(5tcd, asalfo the continuation of
parts and vclTcls, theif communication, and
10 findc the caufes of ficknefles , their epi-
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genefes, theif metaftafcs.theit apoftafc$,their
pdlyndromyes. • , . : c

The wayes of Simptomcs> rcafons of re-
vulfions and the like, are the next : and fo
much fubordinatc to the other, and -of lelTc
nccelTity , as obiiious infpetaions flicwc
this to be more facile, and with lefTe labour
to be attained then that i the other therefore
not being fo well perfeded toourdayes, I
have by this extraordinary bccafion, and
out of my good wifhes, ventured to fpeake
a word by you, unto fuch as are wife in our
owne profcfliion, fince Phifitians ihould be
ifTcOes/, asourdi(5tators wordis, like Gods ywhat
is in us in good skill, and goodwill, for the
fafety of man-kinde ; that as it was faid of
his dayes, fo it may of ours, eorum dkbm

raro amm£ dcfcendebAnt ad infer mm : in their
dayes, foules feldome defeended into hell,
if any at laft forfaking divine grace fhall def-
cend 5 yet that hell may gape a long time ere
it receive them, and that others may have
time to (hake handes with Heaven, that our
profelfion,- the nobleft and wifeft of all
others, ( I fpeake of profeflions which con-
cernc this life onely, notofprofe^onsfupcr-
taturall ) may ftill be efteemed divineft ( as
the old Phifitians were crowned defervedly,
and related among the Gods, above all
others) while by our meanes, miferable
men are reftored to the onely blefiing of this
life, health; and (as I faid) be preferved

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from that great and eternall gulphofinfeiici-
ty, Hell ( many of them not being in ftate
of grace, bccaufe fickcupon their finncs ) and
laftly, made live till they be friends and
fonnes of God, and fo rich as to come to
Heaven: our Saviour Chrifi: crowning us with
fuch happy mindes,as ro be made inffrn-
ments and mcancs of many mens
eternall ralvation,by occafion
of their temporall
reftitution.

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